I started by drafting up sketches on loose printer paper, and penciled a drawing onto flatironed fabric and secured the hoop…

We spent hours on the phone talking, because, as David said, “Gossip is a form of protection.” His friendship gave me…

A simple procedure that guides many of the poems here is to only write while listening to Eastman’s recorded music, a…

Specificity in dreams shares a false exactness / Morelia is a secret city where I have stashed myself

These two pieces are trying to contend with isolation, with distance, with what a fixed border obscures.

I like the idea of illustration. I’m happiest with my visual poems when I’m not sure if the picture is illustrating the…

The Covid-19 virus is not this end-times thing, but it’s a preview. Nature is coming for us not because it’s got it out for…

I see the face of an android, and in its shadow, the hands of assembly line workers in Shenzhen, the bones of children in…

I couldn't stop thinking / no matter how long I looked

...through a kind of poetic composting process.

Artifice, then, is the thing that gets a poem to precision and truth.

we are in the middle of a bloody, heartrending revolution / not western civilization, but civilization itself / i have just…